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Mike Ford

Founded in the 1970's the Alaskan Aviation Safety Foundation makes it their mission to promote safety and pilot education through out Alaska .

With hundreds of members around the state the Alaska Aviation Safety Foundation reaches out to the general aviation population with safety seminars and scholarships to encourage Alaskans with a desire to get involved with aviation. Erin Hall Meade with the AASF "We love giving this money away we are a non profit organization, we are required by law to give away a certain amount of money so we want to give it away".With a little time and a computer any young person looking at aviation as a career can find some financial help from a number of Alaskan aviation groups. Hall took a look "In a hour and a half I found $10,000 dollars worth of scholarships, none of them exclude you after the first year"

Hall emphasized that for young Alaskans that would like to remain in rural Alaska,aviation can be a great career choice. "If you're a kid that was born in the bush and loves living in the bush what better career then aviation. You can go home every night and your community and your providing a valuable service"

And according to Hall it is not only scholarships for pilots that are offered. Airframe and power plant mechanics are always in demand."This is a career where you've got benefits, long term employment you can go anywhere you want and you can get a job"

Perhaps working in a tower or flight service station is more to your liking."If you want to go into aviation management theirs a scholarship for that too"said Hall.

Hall points out that there are at least a dozen scholarships and thousands of dollars waiting for qualified and motivated Alaskans every year."If you meet the requirements, apply, we want good candidates, we want to give away the money!"

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